The following article is adapted from the introduction of Clive James’ new translation of The Divine Comedy, out now from Liveright.* The linked rhymes of the terza rima were a gesture toward form, ...

Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times. With two new... There's a new translation of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy.' ...

Part 1 - The Inferno - Explore the historical background of medieval Florence from 1216 to Dante's birth in 1265, dramatic details of Dante’s childhood, education, and early literary and political ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In preparation for the 700 anniversary of the death of medieval poet Dante Alighieri, a Canadian artist is creating a sculptural tribute to his “Divine Comedy” that would be the ...

One of the nice things about basing an entertainment product on a 700-year-old epic poem like Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is that you don’t have to pay anything to use the basic intellectual property a ...

"Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third," T.S. Eliot wrote. Dante's great Christian epic Divine Comedy, set in 1300, offers us a pitiless examination of his life ...

What happens when you take the poetry out of Dante? If you replace the verse with another art -- say, Seymour Chwast's diabolically witty, devilishly expressive cartoon drawings -- you end up with a ...

For a long time, Ric Burns thought he was going to be a professor of literature. Then he followed his brother, Ken, into filmmaking. Burns began his latest project, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” more ...